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Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo High School
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2001 Santa Fe Avenue

33°47′37″N 118°13′03″W / 33.79374°N 118.21761°W / 33.79374; -118.21761

Long Beach
,
California

USA
Information
TypePublic
MottoSuccess in the West! Pride of the Westside!
Established1996
School districtLong Beach Unified School District
PrincipalMy Ngoc Nguyen
Grades9-12
Enrollment1,721 (2023–2024)[1]
CampusUrban
Color(s)  Green
  Black
  White
MascotJaguar
Team nameJAGS
Websitehttps://cabrillo.lbschools.net/
Ethnic composition as of 2020–21
Race and ethnicity[2] Total
Hispanic or Latino 75.1%
 
Asian 11.7%
 
African American 8.5%
 
Pacific Islander 1.8%
 
Other 1.6%
 
Non-Hispanic White/Anglo 1.2%
 
Native American 0.1%
 

Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo High School is a high school in Long Beach, California. The school is a part of the Long Beach Unified School District.

History

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In the Winter of 1996, the ground was broken for a new high school in West Long Beach. The school officially opened in September 1996 and only started with ninth and tenth grade and a student body of approximately 975 students. Since Cabrillo High School was still under construction at that time, the original plan for the school was that once students completed tenth grade, all students would be transferred to one of the other five comprehensive high schools to complete their secondary education. The tenth-grade students really liked Cabrillo so much that efforts made by the students and parents led the Cabrillo Administration and the LBUSD Board of Education to add grade eleven and twelve grade. After their requests were made, Cabrillo High School graduated their first class with approximately 74 students receiving their high school diplomas in 1999. [3]

Academics

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Throughout the years, Cabrillo has seen tremendous instructional changes through multiple 'house' pathways or (Small Learning Community–SLC): [4]

Cabrillo Academy of Global Logistics (AGL)

Cabrillo Academy of Law and Justice (CAL-J)

Cabrillo Engineering and Design (CED)

Specialized Academy of Compute Media, Arts & Animation (SACMAA)

These SLC's provide Cabrillo students with more options after high school—ranging from college to military (NJROTC) and career opportunities.

College admissions

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The Class of 2021 spans throughout California within the California State University and University of California system, although alumni especially committed to universities in Southern California. The most popular destinations within both systems are Long Beach State (54 alumni), UC Santa Barbara (5 alumni), and Cal State Dominguez Hills (3 alumni).[5][6] Long Beach Cabrillo graduates are granted two years of free tuition at Long Beach City College, which has a dedicated Transfer Admission Guarantee resource center for transferring to the majority of UC and CSU Campuses.[7][8] Admissions at private universities are sparse, but enrollments have occurred at USC and Cal Lutheran.[9] Below are admissions tables derived from the University of California and California State University for the Class of 2021:

Counselors

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The school has 4 pathways, therefore there are multiple counselors specific for each pathway. Two of the counselors manage 9th graders, and the rest manage 10-12th graders.

Andrea Itson (Assistant Principal)

Nancy Freihaut (Head Counselor)

R. Lisa Wholey (CED Counselor 9)

Joel Lovelace (CAL-J/SACMAA Counselor Grade 9)

Karen Kim (CED Counselor Grades 10-12)

John Tran (AGL Counselor Grades 10-12)

Viseth Vann (SACMAA Counselor Grades 10-12)

Luz Romero (CAL-J Counselor Grades 10-12)

Trivia

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The school was used as the location for one of the opening scenes from The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.[10]

During the first season of the television series Glee (TV series), the school was regularly masked as William McKinley High School.[11][12]

References

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  1. ^ "Cabrillo High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  2. ^ "2020-21 Enrollment by Ethnicity and Grade: Cabrillo High". California Department of Education. Retrieved April 9, 2022.
  3. ^ "Mission and History - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo High School". cabrillo.lbschools.net. Retrieved August 11, 2025.
  4. ^ "Future Students - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo High School". cabrillo.lbschools.net. Retrieved August 11, 2025.
  5. ^ a b "UC Admissions by source school". University of California. Retrieved April 10, 2022.
  6. ^ a b c "CSU Applications, Admissions, and Enrollment Dashboard". California State University. Archived from the original on April 3, 2022. Retrieved April 10, 2022.
  7. ^ "Transfer Center at LBCC". Long Beach City College. November 27, 2019. Retrieved April 10, 2022.
  8. ^ "Long Beach College Promise". Long Beach City College. November 27, 2019. Retrieved April 10, 2022.
  9. ^ "Long Beach Cabrillo Signing Day 2014". YouTube. Retrieved April 10, 2022.
  10. ^ "Go On Location: Los Angeles Locations from The Fast and the Furious Movies". App (DiscoverLA). July 29, 2015. Archived from the original on September 22, 2015. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
  11. ^ "Go On Location: Los Angeles Locations from The Fast and the Furious Movies". App (DiscoverLA). July 29, 2015. Archived from the original on September 9, 2021. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
  12. ^ "William McKinley High School from "Glee"". IAMNOTASTALKER. January 13, 2010. Retrieved August 11, 2025.
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